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Fearless Diversity

Fearless Diversity

著者: Rachel Cashman and Simon Fanshawe
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Leaders are faced with dilemmas every day that flow from human interactions at work. And they are so often disruptive, time-consuming, potentially create division among your staff and test you as a leader. You need time to reflect…..you need space in the morning to listen to Rachel Cashman and Simon Fanshawe eating these problems for breakfast. Fearless Diversity is the candid podcast that tackles the real dilemmas bosses, managers, and leaders face every day – around accountability, decision-making, workplace dynamics, conflict, and organisational culture and their people. Join Rachel Cashman and Simon Fanshawe — two of the foremost thought leaders in workplace diversity, leadership, and inclusion — as they dive into honest conversations that get to the heart of it. We have the conversations you want to have.



Rachel brings real-world, high-level implementation experience - expertise that CEOs and managers can trust, learn from, and enlist when they need results and to ensure their teams perform at their best. Simon adds his clout as a highly respected broadcaster, author, and inclusion specialist. They don’t always agree — and that’s the point. Rachel and Simon argue, disagree, and explore different perspectives, and always with resolution and insight – modelling the difficult conversations leaders need to have. It’s a podcast for thoughtful leaders who want to reflect, rather than shout or be shouted at. Fearless Diversity is the place to think differently about today’s trickiest human issues at work.

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Rachel Cashman and Simon Fanshawe
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  • Free to Say What? Glastonbury, Censorship and the BBC Blues
    2025/07/10

    After explosive scenes at Glastonbury and two alarming reports detailing “cancellation” and fear sweeping through both publishing and the arts, Fearless Diversity dives into the complex world of artistic freedom, censorship and public outrage.


    Simon wrestles with whether there are any limits to what artists can say and whether Rod Stewart should just shut up about Gaza and Farage, and stick to singing “Maggie May”. Meanwhile Rachel tries (and fails) to keep the chat away from her beloved football, Edinburgh and her horror at the antisemitism at Glastonbury.


    We’re not afraid to tackle the big issues:

    · Should Glastonbury—or any promoter—gag their artists?

    · Did the BBC go too far by airing those incendiary performances live to millions?

    · Should festival boss Emily Eavis have shown more caution in her line-up?


    We explore the issues around those hounded out of publishing and the arts simply for voicing their views. And we ask: Should museums tell us what to think, or should the public be trusted to make up their own minds?


    From “Queers for Palestine” banners to Marilyn Manson’s headline-grabbing antics - and even the shocking appearance of a Hitler flag at Glasto - nothing is off limits as we explore the blurry line between free speech, the freedom of artists, outrage, hostility and moral responsibility or the law. Was Rushdie right when he said "The moment you limit free speech it's not free speech'.


    Plus, find out why Simon’s mother protested at Scotland’s smartest retailer Jenner’s and how Rachel was brought up by an elephant.


    This week’s show is bold, provocative and just serious enough to keep us on air. We hope this episode prompts us all to ask: what exactly is artistic freedom for?

    Tune in, shout at your speaker or nod in agreement and let's thrash it out together. At Fearless Diversity we are always up for a difference of opinion.



    RESOURCES:


    Freedom In The Arts (FITA) report

    https://shorturl.at/hs3UI


    Every Day Cancellation in Publishing Report

    https://sex-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Everyday-cancellation-in-publishing-Sex-Matters.pdf


    The First Writers' Congress of Donald Trump – David Aaronovitch

    https://shorturl.at/Q5ZGO


    Rachel Rooney - My Body Is Me – attacked

    https://shorturl.at/HVjSV

    Buy it:

    https://shorturl.at/HyoT1


    Letter to Sadler’s Well re Barclays sponsorship

    https://shorturl.at/Sex2J


    Letter re Manchester Royal Exchange’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    https://shorturl.at/tEl1H


    Report on letter to PEN opposing the Award to Charlie Hebdo

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/29/writers-join-protest-charlie-hebdo-pen-award


    For more about Rachel: Who Is The Fearless Facilitator? - Fearless Facilitator

    For more about Simon: Who We Are – Diversity by Design

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    55 分
  • PIP PIP Hooray .
    2025/07/03

    PIP PIP Hooray - Disability: People, Potential, and the Art of the Possible

    Welcome to Fearless Diversity the podcast that tackles the tricky bits of life in work and has the conversation that you want to. This week Simon and Rachel dive into disability after the huge public, media and Parliamentary furore about welfare reform and the implications for disabled people receiving Personal Independence Payments (PIP). In our conversation we unpick some of the biggest issues facing disabled people in the UK today, from societal stigma, employment and pay gaps to the ongoing complexity of reasonable adjustments, the increase in mental health issues and guess what? Donkeys, yes donkeys, play a starring role.

    Expect frank conversation as we explore the uncomfortable truths of workplace discrimination and the baffling obstacles of physical and digital accessibility. There’s plenty of laughter too, as Rachel recounts her uniquely blunt doctor's appointment, and Simon shares a surprisingly profound life lesson learned during a spirited game of croquet!

    Follow our conversation moving beyond the importance of just considering the needs of people living with disability to seeing that as a crucial step in unlocking human potential at work and in life.


    Settle in and join us as we ask why we are still so hesitant to embrace the art of the possible when it comes to disability and how we can reframe the entire conversation into one that is human, and focuses on the potential of everyone.


    How Kendall can stop this national sickness - Fraser Nelson (The Times)

    https://shorturl.at/rFvnK


    Professor Peter Fonagy - Understanding the crisis in young people’s mental health

    https://www.health.org.uk/features-and-opinion/blogs/understanding-the-crisis-in-young-people-s-mental-health


    Government advice on disability and employment

    https://www.gov.uk/rights-disabled-person/employment


    The employment of disabled people updated 20 June 2025

    https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/the-employment-of-disabled-people-2024/the-employment-of-disabled-people-2024


    Team Domenica

    https://teamdomenica.com/


    The scenario

    Sally has a diagnosis of autism. But she has not told anyone. Not her colleagues, not her manager, not HR. She is a high performer.


    Colleagues have noticed that she can take statements very literally which can cause problems or that she sometimes appears to struggle to figure out when it’s her turn to talk or listen during a conversation. As a result, she sometimes talks for an excessive period of time or at others seems disinterested in what colleagues are saying.


    Quite often people in the team will joke that: “Oh, I park my car in the same spot every day … I must be a bit autistic” or “I’m super OCD about my desk being tidy”. Finally one day having coffee with her team in the canteen her frustration boils over. “Well I am autistic”, she says. Two of her colleagues say, trying to be sympathetic, “Gosh, well we’re all a bit on the spectrum”. And Sally leaves.

    For more about Rachel: Who Is The Fearless Facilitator? - Fearless Facilitator

    For more about Simon: Who We Are – Diversity by Design

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    54 分
  • Why are we all so scared to talk about race?
    2025/06/26

    Let’s face it: conversations about race make even the most fearless among us uneasy, awkward or just very nervous. In this episode of Fearless Diversity, Simon Fanshawe (Diversity Dissident) and Rachel Cashman (Fearless Facilitator) dive headlong into the silence, discomfort, and tiptoeing that surrounds race at work and in everyday life.


    Prompted to record this episode by the publication of Baroness Casey's 'National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse' and the associated headlines -defensive and offensive - Simon and Rachel felt it was time to talk about race.


    Ever found yourself tippexing out uncomfortable truths, dodging controversy, or simply holding back from fear of saying the unsayable? You’re not alone. Simon and Rachel unravel why so many of us, particularly well-intentioned liberals, get tied in knots over race. From performance management gone wrong to navigating everyday interactions loaded with uncertainty, they explore why good intentions too often lead to bad outcomes.


    Expect honest reflections, laugh-out-loud insights, and some genuinely uncomfortable moments (yes, they’re going there). But above all, prepare for a much-needed call to courage because if we don’t fill the conversational vacuum, someone far less helpful certainly will.


    Baroness Casey 'National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse':

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-audit-on-group-based-child-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse


    Baroness Casey Newsnight Interview: https://youtu.be/_1u7-dXwhs0


    People Management: https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1919974/black-employees-disproportionately-subjected-worker-surveillance-report-finds


    Ten Years of Snowy White Peaks, Workforce Race Equality in the NHS: https://bmjleader.bmj.com/content/9/2/178


    Nazir Afzal Comment Piece in Observer: https://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-ideas/article/cowardice-and-inaction-left-children-to-be-abused


    The Good Ally by Nova Reid: https://amzn.eu/d/1l72wVl


    The Power of Difference – Simon Fanshawe (stereotypes pp 114-115)

    https://shorturl.at/eiBgb


    What Casey Did - The real report, not the one in the papers by David Aaronovitch

    https://davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/what-casey-did?utm_campaign=email-post&r=u6e8&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email


    For more about Rachel: Who Is The Fearless Facilitator? - Fearless Facilitator

    For more about Simon: Who We Are – Diversity by Design

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    59 分

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